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AT-154 / ATF-154 Chimariko

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

Abnaki Class Fleet Ocean Tug:

Laid down as (AT-154) at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston S.C.

Redesignated Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-149), 15 May 1944

Launched, 30 December 1944

Commissioned USS Chimariko (ATF-154), 28 April 1945

Decommissioned, 30 October 1946 at San Pedro, CA.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Struck from the Naval Register and custody transferred to the Maritime Administration in 1962

Reacquired by th Navy for use as a salvage training hulk in 1976

Final Disposition, sunk as a target off southern California, 27 August 1978

Specifications:
Displacement 1,190 t.(lt)
Length 205'
Beam 38' 5"
Draft 15' 4"
Speed 16.5 kts.
Complement 85
Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm guns
Propulsion diesel-electric, four General Motors 12-278A diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw, 3,600shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	62k	ex Chimariko (ATF-154) laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., 11 September 1975. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976. US Navy photo # NH 84186 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center		US Naval Historical Center
	31k	ex Chimariko (ATF-154 seen here as a salvage training hulk, circa 1976-78.		Submitted by Joe Siesel to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors

View the Chimariko (ATF-154)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors

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